News & Updates section is now a blog
July 16th, 2007
As you can see, I’ve turned the News & Updates section into a blog. The section naturally lends itself to this kind of thing and I’m not sure why I didn’t think to do it earlier. Anyways, for the most part this will still be for letting you know when I’ve put up a new article. But there are some other benefits as well:
- You can subscribe to the blog’s RSS feed to get notified of any updates. Yeah, the articles themselves won’t be in the feed, just the notifications, but this site at least has some sort of RSS component to it now.*
- I can do more blog-type things like making quickie posts, posting links to relevant articles, or putting up links to other blogs (the main site’s Resource Links doesn’t have any blogs in it).
Again, this is mostly still just the old News & Updates section. I don’t want to promise that I’m going to start posting tons of new stuff every day. It’ll be more when I feel like it or if something good comes along. The main show is still at www.succeedsocially.com
Let me know what you think. If you notice any technical issues, please let me know too.
*If you’re not familiar with RSS, I suggest you give it a try. Don’t even worry about the term ‘RSS’. Basically the way it works is say you like 20 different pages that are updated regularly, but unpredictably. Instead of having to check each one manually, you can subscribe to their RSS feed then view all the feeds from a central hub via a feed reader. Whenever a site/blog adds new content, you’ll know and can read it right then and there in the reader. It’s kind of like an Inbox for the web, but instead of receiving new emails, you’re viewing new posts and articles from the sites you subscribe to.
I’d heard about RSS for a while but put off using it. One day I just decided to give it a go and signed up with Google Reader. Like I said, now instead of checking twenty different sites every morning, I log into Google Reader and can see which sites have added new stuff all in one page. Sign up and add a blog you follow or two, you won’t go back.
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